No Prelitigation Offers Results in $2.5 Million Policy Limits Settlement

Motorcycle Accidents

In July 2022, Demas Law Group, P.C. client, a 67-year-old retiree, was riding his motorcycle in Rancho Murrieta, California. As he approached a grocery store, a car driven by a 19-year-old turned into the store from the lane to the left of our client, resulting in our client impacting the side of the vehicle and being ejected thirty-five feet onto the pavement. He was taken to a Sacramento emergency room and was diagnosed with multiple injuries, the most serious of which were complex pelvis fractures, a fractured sacrum, and a post-surgery infection. After ten surgeries and a lengthy recovery, he still has residual pain but has full function and continues to ride motorcycles.

Unfortunately, the responding police officer determined our client was at fault for the crash, and eyewitnesses indicated our client was traveling at excessive speed and erratically. Based on the police report the insurance company denied liability for the crash. Demas Law Group, P.C. attorneys John Demas and Brad Schultz were not concerned with the police officer’s findings and hired an accident reconstruction expert who concluded the police officer’s report was inaccurate.  Despite providing this additional information to the insurance company, no settlement offer was made, and Demas Law Group, P.C. filed the lawsuit on behalf of our client.  After filing suit, Demas Law Group, P.C. took the depositions of the witnesses who allegedly supported the police officer’s findings.  Their testimony confirmed the accident reconstruction expert’s findings and was contrary to what the police officer wrote down. Shortly after the depositions, the insurance company paid the full policy limits of $2.5 million dollars.

Although many law firms would not take on a case with an adverse police report, Demas Law Group, P.C. is not discouraged by challenging facts or cases.  Through our expertise and hard work, Demas Law Group, P.C. finds a way to win for our clients.